Not at all! One year with Ray is better than ...none, Rondo keeps improving and House has to stay too. Never change a winning team- and C's would do the repeat this year if KG and Powe stayed healthy. Greetings & salutations from the biggest C's fan in Germany! :)

The deal doesn't look horrible, but I would hate to get rid of Rondo. He will be a top 3 point guard in a couple of years if not this coming season. He's their best all around player and with KG on a major decline, the C's will need Rondo even more so.

get rid of stuckey and rondo and add picks and/or fringe players to the deal and it would work for me.

The problem with becoming a top 3 point guard is that he is gonna want top 3 PG money after next year... So for a guy who can't knock down outside shots with any consistency, or free throws, for that matter, i'm not sure he would be worth what he is gonna be demanding.

there is no way that would work it sounds decent rip, prince and stuckey but i dont see them coming out and winning us a championship. stuckey is no where near the talent of rondo stuckey is like house. The rumor was by low executives so no need to worry if they are trading rondo away it better be for a person that will help us win a championship. cause with all these rumors its looking like its going to get tougher with the cavs looking for someone like vc to help..

We won't need to give Rondo a giant contract next year. maybe 4yr/28mil. I say we just let Allen walk next year and try to sign a player like dwayne wade or brandon roy. Or trade Allen next offseason for a younger SG along with somebody else in the deal.

How are you gonna trade Allen next off season since he'll be a free agent??? That makes no sense... And also, we might not give it to him, but he'll be asking for a huge contract, which basically translates into Rondo signing with another team.

Throw in Baby...get lucky in the draft and sign wade in 2010?

i just cant see us throwing away rondo like that unless its a top caliber player. i do agree we need some help off the bench and that trade would give us someting but that would leave us without a solid PG. if we need to move anybody it should be someone like allen where he is still a excellent player and has good trade value where you can get a few players to help the bench and throw in another player to sweeten the deal. but personaly i want to see the big three together for 1 more year when he becomes a free agent then we can hit the free agent market and get some decent talent.

For those of you who are in denial about the rumors surrounding Rondo's character and ststus with the C's, check out this Chad Ford interview on ESPN:

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=4280665&categoryid=2459788

This proposed trade is so ludicrous it makes me sick. There is NO substitute for Rondo's speed. And were talking about these older declining players who could not come close to winning a championship in Detroit. I like Thabeet and having him spend some time around Garnett wouldn't be a bad thing. He would also give us size to contend with the Lakers. If there was a trade that could be made for that No. 2 pick..Do it. If we lose Rondo, it's back to mediocrity... That is, unless he himself does not want to play here

Rondo for Tony Parker...straight up

I Love Rondo and Allen. Allen's Expiring contract will not only help other teams(These trades we here about), it will help us land the prize I want...D-Wade. 20 plus million will lure anyone looking to grab the ring and get paid. People in any sport now covet the tradition of winning which is again Boston. Through my travels through blogs it stuns me how many people do not understand how good Rondo is. Keep this team. See what happens. Draft a Jeff Adrienn and let Big Baby go. The Wade contract could be set up to pay high at its end right when Pierce or KG is on the outs. This team, as assembled, would have rolled on through. They played the toughest team, matchup-wise (Orlando: 6-10 forwards, guards everwhere) to 7 without KG. Patience my friends/Danny Ainge...We will continue...

Imagine this lineup provided a good extension plus conversation with Rondo...PG-Rondo, 2G-Wade, SF-Pierce, PF-KG, C-Perkins. Bench: House, Powe, Allen, Pruitt, and free-agent/draft picks(Both draft picks and free agant pick-ups under Ainge have been nice).

I watched that Ford interview...sorry, there isn't an ounce of substance in anything he had to say...100% pure unadulterated speculative BS.

Another made up scenario to give sportswriters and sports show talking heads an excuse to get paid. Rondo is developing into one of the better point guards in the league so lets trade him. This is why these guys write opinions instead of running teams.

Ainge, keep Rondo in Boston!!!
In future, he will be MVP.

DONT TRADE RONDO UNLESS ITS FOR LEBRON END OF STORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What's this "shopping Rajon Rondo and Ray Allen" crap! Both men were meant to be Celtics. The Boston Celtics are close to perfect the way the roster is now. The only problem was the injuries they sustained last year, "especially with loss of Kevin Garnett's help." Boston would have breezed past Orlando and pushed Cleveland aside to face LA and repeated for an 18th title. Boston is still the better team in the NBA, they just lacked health and KG. If anything, they can use another big man inside the paint to help Perkins and KG. One more fact, if Rondo learned to shoot consistent 3's like Allen, House and Pierce, that's an instant 10 to 15 points on the board. "Keep Allen and Rondo"!!! the team chemistry will decline if the core players are removed and Celtics.

Rondo is the best PG the C's have had since Dennis Johnson. DJ, by the way, had supposed "character issues", yet he was a major factor in the success of those 80's teams. Rondo is a very similar player and has risen to be one of the top PGs in the league. Stats don't always tell the story. You can have two guys with nearly identical stat lines, but you just know that one guy impacts the game more than the other.

I'll give you two stat lines, you tell me who you want...

A) 23/9/6
B) 21/12/5

One guy is the better scorer, they both play the same position, so you might say, "Guy A gets me a few more buckets every night, a couple more assists, I'll take him."

A is Antoine Walker, B is Kevin Garnett. Both from the 2001 season. We know that 'Toine, while a good player, was not in the same class as Garnett. The stat lines were similar, but they did entirely different things for their team. That's the difference between a Rondo and a Stuckey. Rondo is going to completely disrupt the game plan of the other team with his speed, defense, and ability to keep pushing the ball.

Keep Rondo.

This debate comes from the talent perspective. Rondo is a talent and we don't want to have a repeat of the Billups situation. Now the one thing that is slowly leaking out is that management feels he doesn't have the character to harness all the potential he displays on the court. How do we really know what goes on in the locker room or in the practice facility. Let’s not forget the infamous video of Rondo blacking out on Rivers as someone tried to close the curtain so the media wouldn't catch a glimpse. If knock on Rivers is that he's hard on Rondo, well let’s not forget that Rondo plays his position. If anyone were qualified to point out shortcomings or mistakes at that position, it's Rivers. Also the history with Tubby Smith seems to be very telling. He's not known as being a difficult guy; he had a young talent in Rondo, yet was not too sad to see him go. He'll even admit that Rondo has a tremendous gift, but also carries a big chip on his shoulder. He’ll even go so far as to say that Rondo has some growing up to do (See a pattern developing)
Rondo is not a leader on the team. Sure you can point to the 'new big three' and say that's the reason, but as a PG of a team, you have to be a leader.
I also didn't take Danny's comments as a scarlet letter or an admission that they are trying to trade Rondo. Seriously, why would you bash a guy you are shopping, that would only diminish what you could get in return? Danny's a pretty smart guy (despite what you think about his basketball IQ) and maybe, just maybe, he said what he said to motivate Rondo to work harder. When I see Rondo, I don't see a hard worker. Ray, Paul, KG....hell, even Scal work their asses off. If Rondo worked that hard, he'd be the "Max contract" player that he wants to be.
Boston fans should have learned that attitude counts for a lot. If Rondo isn't happy to work for a championship contender and he doesn't want to constantly improve his game, then he's going to hurt the team. Rondo reminds me a lot of Antoine Walker, not on the court, but in interviews. Antoine was our basketball equivalent of Manny Ramirez.
If Danny trades Rondo, with or without Ray, maybe it’s a play for the much hyped 2010 free agent class. If Rondo and Ray were gone and replaced with a James, Wade or Howard, Danny would be hailed as the Theo Epstein of basketball. By the way in that scenario, Pierce and KG would be here with one of those names.
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